Community Management Pack Catalog
OpsMgr and Essentials 2007 Management Packs
Last update: Aug, 29th, 2008)
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requires OpsMgr SP1 |
by Raphael Burri, The Adobe Flash Media Server management pack monitors the health of Adobe’s FMS 2 and 3, installed on Windows Computers. It provides discovery, availability, performance collection rules, performance reports and FMS related tasks. |
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ver 3.0 |
from Ron Williams, this sample MP provides a right-click ability to forward an alert to someone via email. |
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Backup Unsealed Management Packs ver 2.0 |
by Neale Brown, this MP performs nightly backup of unsealed MPs to a folder on the Management Server using an embedded Powershell script, as well as a version archive of X days previous backups as defined by the user. User configurable settings are exposed as overridable parameters in the timed event rule executing the script. This is an great update to version 1.0 by Derek Harkin. |
| by Scott Vintinner, this simple “proof-of-concept” management pack to monitor some of my Cisco routers. The MP is configured to discover a Cisco 2600, 2800, and 2801 router. Currently it will monitor up to 4 interfaces for up/down port status, errors and incoming/outgoing bps. Detailed description HERE. | |
| from SCF (Neale Brown), This MP uses a 3rd party DLL to check the response of a DNS server. This can be used to check the availablity of external DNS servers. |
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| Allows creation of geographic topology map for monitored resources in Operations Manager. |
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by Jaime Correia, this was the winner of the System Center Solutions Contest. Created in parts 1 and 2 of our Scripting Series, this sample MP contains a variety of file system monitoring rules, including monitoring for the presence or absence of a file, file age, file size, and file count. Additional rules of folder size and count are also included. |
| by Brian McDermott(MS), this MP uses Powershell to allow creating a new Notification Subscription targeted at future occurrences of a specific alert. | |
| by Anders Bengtsson, this management pack allows security groups in Active Directory to be used to discover classes in Operations Manager 2007. For example if you already have your servers divied into security groups in Active Directory, you can use these groups-become-classes for targeting discovery and monitoring. | |
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by Andrzej Lipka and friends, allows putting a group of objects into maintenance mode on a scheduled basis (up to 10 groups). Download our user guide HERE. |
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by Andrzej Lipka, by default it discovers all event logs on all computers, monitoring is enabled by adding an override and after monitoring is enabled you can do some customization of thresholds (80 and 90% by default AFAIR) |
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version 2.0 |
from SCF, this is a rewrite of the original Multi-host Ping Management Pack. This version includes overridable parameters for 6 parameters (displayed as separate parameters as in MS MPs), as well as custom views of event, alert and ping response performance data. Click HERE for detailed review. |
| by SCF (Pete Zerger), provides an agent task to allow on-demand testing of end-to-end notification functionality in Operations Manager and Essentials 2007 (requires SP1 or later). | |
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(Alert on Pending Actions) |
Filling a small gap in OpsMgr 2007, This Custom MP will scan the Operations DB used by Ops Mgr 2007 and alert if there are any pending actions. |
| from Cameron Fuller, this sample MP illustrating process monitoring provides alerting if a process specified is not running within an acceptable range. For example - MyBigCustomerApp.exe not running at least once on this server send me an alert. |
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| from SCF, this MP presents two console tasks targeted at computer selected in monitoring pane. The first uses psexec.exe to create remote interactive command prompt. The second uses psloggedon.exe to retrieve logged on users. |
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| from Cameron Fuller, this MP adds Tasks that allow operators to highlight an alert and submit a search to the SystemCenterForum knowledge base for answers, as well as share their own solutions with the community. |
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| from Derek Harkin, It allows you to turn on and off maintenance mode for a monitored server by simply running a vbscript on the monitored server itself. It does not require anything extra installed on the server (no powershell, .NET etc). No OpsMgr console required! |
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| from Maarten Goet, this MP checks the status of tasks in the Windows Scheduler. |
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SMB File Share Performance |
This contains two sample scripts to log response time data of a SMB share by copying a file to a specified share. |
SMTP Check MP |
from SCF (Neale Brown), this is a sample MP containing a script that checks a target server’s SMTP port. The script uses the Toolsack DLL to perform the network tasks. |
| SNMP Custom Extensions Library | from Raphael Burri, this is a sample MP that demonstrates SNMP OID query-based discovery. |
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from SecureVantage, This MP is based on guidance of Security MVP Randy Franklin Smith, this MP includes |